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How to Create a WordPress Widget from Scratch

WordPress offers the users, power to customize their site like anything. While saying “power”, it truly means “freedom” to build and décor a website. WordPress widget is such a “Power Tool” you can use to customize your web page.

So, what is WordPress widget?

The WordPress widgets could be formally introduced as the blocks of dynamic or static HTML content that can be attached to precise areas of the web page (sidebars or specific widget areas). Being as a user of WordPress, you can simply enjoy built-in widgets like Categories, Archives, Tag Cloud, Recent Posts, Search, Calendar and much more.

So, if you are looking for ready-to-use widgets, you can have thousands of WordPress widgets in the Plugin Directory. However, this huge Plugin Directory could fail you to find the ideal widget that you want to incorporate into your site.

The only solution to this troubled situation is creating a WordPress widget of your own. How? If you are a plugin developer, creating a widget is probably as easy as pie. But, what if you are not a plugin developer? You may take help from WordPress maintenance services or develop a plugin on your own!

Here, in this short tutorial, we will introduce you to the simple steps to create widgets. You will be amazed to learn how easy it is to develop a widget of your own with a sprinkle of programming language.

How to develop a simple WordPress widget

Yes, we will stick to the word “simple” widget. In this blog, you will learn the basic steps of creating a widget even if you are not a professional developer. You can give any name to your plugin, for instance, we will call it “Random Post Widget.”

Following is the glimpse of “almost” complete code for the widget we are talking about. You can copy and paste it into your file and save it to see the result. But, as we have said it is “almost complete,” if you want to learn how to create widget easily you have to go through this blog. The secret will be disclosed step by step. Image is there to help see the structure of the code.

Now, you can see that the widget box has some information. It is a general view of a basic query and loop demonstration. It is a zero formatting output; which means widget information has the default look of your web contents. It is simple and certainly not appealing.

STEP 3: Add Permalink

After setting up the basic widget, ut is time to improve its look. How? Let’s add some HTML formatting with ECHO command and create a link with the function: get_the_permalink ()

So, it is now looking really good and appealing, isn’t it? If you want to make more changes and add or edit HTML codes at “WIDGET CODE GOES HERE.”

The Sum Up

It is really easy to make your WordPress custom widget. It doesn’t matter whether if you understand 99% of the code used in the blog, you will be able to create an own custom widget. If you still have doubts, you can consult with available WordPress support services or simply inbox us for further clarification.

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